The exciting story of how a colony of tortoises is established on a remote South Sea island

Tortuga, the tortoise, is caught in a storm and finds herself washed up on a remote island where raiding sea birds swoop down and steal her newly laid eggs. Exhausted and alone Tortuga desperately searches for a safe place to live and a new mate. But just as she feels all is lost, she discovers that some of her eggs survived, and have hatched into baby tortoises.